Mission & Vision
Our overall vision is to be recognized as a brilliant place to work, a provider of inclusive and high-quality health care, clinical research and education in the UK and a strong contributor to the aspiration of Sheffield to be a vibrant, healthy and sustainable city region
Our mission is to improve health and wellbeing, to support people to keep mentally and physically well, to get better when they are ill and when they cannot fully recover, to stay as well as they can to the end of their lives. We aim to work at the limits of science – bringing the highest levels of human knowledge and skill to save lives and improve health. We touch lives at times of basic human need when our care and compassion are what matter most to people.
Our strategic aims are:
➢ Deliver the best clinical outcomes
➢ Provide patient centered services
➢ Employ caring and cared for staff
➢ Spend public resources responsibly and wisely
➢ Create a sustainable organization
➢ Deliver excellent research, education and innovation
Our Values are:
➢ Patient first - Ensure that the people we serve are at the heart of all we do
➢ Respectful - Be kind, respectful to everyone and value diversity
➢ Ownership - Celebrate our successes, learn continuously and ensure we improve
➢ Unity - Work in partnership and value the roles of others
➢ Deliver - Be efficient, effective and accountable for our actions
Our hospital is fully committed to understanding and improving our sustainability credentials and our priorities include reducing carbon emissions, making improvements to the estate, creating a circular economy with our waste and improving our staff and patient’s wellbeing.
Our specific strategic priorities for Sustainability that are set out in our hospital strategy are:
➢ Deliver social value through our patient and stakeholder contacts enhancing our role and impact on the community by thinking and working beyond the boundaries of the services we provide
➢ Ensure a deep engagement process across the organization and with our partners to embed net zero principles to streamline service delivery and supporting functions
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➢ Strengthen our relationship with schools to encourage children and young people to work in healthcare and support the best start in life through health promotion and prevention
➢ Strengthen our work within neighborhoods, focus on reducing health inequalities within them and with the voluntary sector provide more holistic and patient centered care
➢ Through collaboration and active leadership, play a more prominent role in the transformation of health and social care services locally and regionally and influence at a national level health policy and transformation
➢ Drive our ambition for a greener hospital by developing a Sustainability Plan that contains a wide range of carbon reduction initiatives and broader sustainability goals
A baseline assessment using the Sustainable Development Units Sustainable Development Assessment Tool was completed in 2021, to identify the Galdogob General Hospital’s position in relation to the ten areas of sustainability, which resulted in a score of 47% and showed the areas for development that have been included as part of the development of this plan. This baseline assessment indicates that we have considerable scope to improve.
A carbon accounting survey is planned for end of the ongoing construction and get the hospital back in full function to understand where and how much our carbon emissions are coming from. Once understood, this will allow us to draw up specific plans to reduce these emissions and apply particular focus on the areas which will have the greatest impact. We will also use this to determine timeframes on the projects within this plan to improve against the carbon emission metric
It is clear that we must address these challenges through strategic partnerships. There are many organisations locally and across the region, such as healthcare providers, universities, councils, businesses and other institutions who also want a sustainable future. Working together with key stakeholders such as local, innovative, industry leaders will be critical to encouraging behavioral change and implementing joined up sustainable solutions, that will benefit the local communities within which our hospital operates and all our employees, in particular where we have opportunities to undertake a modal shift for health, wealth and wellbeing.